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New Ways of Looking: John Ruskin's visual and textual strategies for writing a history of architecture
conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 05:31 authored by Chatterjee, AThe paper focuses on the conceptual notion of the audience as an idealized way of seeing or the privileging of certain visual modes to delineate that, which is meaningful in and as architecture. This is examined through an interrogation of John Ruskin's writings on architecture. While Ruskin's writings have had far-reaching effects as well as impacts on Victorian architectural practice, to the professionally trained audience they have always seemed to lack import and potency. This disconnect points to shifts in visual conventions in architectural thought. In order to identify these shifts, the paper puts forwards a series of original arguments. Ruskin's history of architecture was written exclusively on and about· fragments and surfaces. However, underneath this seemingly ad hoc and capricious method was the pursuit of planar architecture, textile analogy, and architectural hybridity. The paper interrogates these -orientations to reveal multiple visual modes of spiritualism, travel, and photography that co-exist and cooperate to inform Ruskin's development of a nineteenth century architectural ideal.
History
Publication title
Audience: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New ZealandEditors
A Moulis and D Van Der PlaatPagination
1-14ISBN
9780646558264Department/School
School of Architecture and DesignPublisher
Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New ZealandPlace of publication
BrisbaneEvent title
Audience: The 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New ZealandEvent Venue
State Library of Queensland, BrisbaneDate of Event (Start Date)
2011-07-07Date of Event (End Date)
2011-07-10Rights statement
Copyright 2011 SAHANZRepository Status
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